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subterranean

Word definitions for subterranean in dictionaries

Wikipedia Word definitions in Wikipedia
Subterranean is an MCD released by the Swedish melodic death metal band In Flames on 15 June 1995. It was remastered and re-released in 2003 by Regain Records. "Dead Eternity" is featured on The Jester Race , with Anders Fridén as singer. "The Inborn Lifeless" ...

Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
adjective COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES an underground/subterranean passage ▪ The air in these underground passages is cold and damp. EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES ▪ subterranean passages ▪ a subterranean explosion ▪ A subterranean stream is believed to ...

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
c.1600, from Latin subterraneus "underground," from sub "under" (see sub- ) + terra "earth, the ground" (see terrain ) + -an .

Wiktionary Word definitions in Wiktionary
a. below ground, under the earth, underground

WordNet Word definitions in WordNet
adj. being or operating under the surface of the earth; "subterranean passages"; "a subsurface flow of water" [syn: subterraneous ] lying beyond what is openly revealed or avowed (especially being kept in the background or deliberately concealed); "subterranean ...

The Collaborative International Dictionary Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Subterranean \Sub`ter*ra"ne*an\, Subterraneous \Sub`ter*ra"ne*ous\, a. [L. subterraneus; sub under + terra earth. See Terrace .] Being or lying under the surface of the earth; situated within the earth, or under ground; as, subterranean springs; a subterraneous ...

Usage examples of subterranean.

If Josiah Bartram, when living, had told any one of this subterranean chamber, his confidant would have been Hurley Adams!

They have stated that the practice by illegal users of dumping marihuana seeds down the toilet, to prevent arrests, has resulted in massive subterranean growths.

Iowa Disorganized Subterranean Militia, led by Commander Mearl Streep.

But to Mearl Streep and his Iowa Disorganized Subterranean Militia, it not only rang with truth, but it fit perfectly with everything they believed.

The light-colored mounds often met in the forest, sometimes measuring forty feet in diameter by two feet in height, are the domes which overlie the entrances to the vast subterranean galleries of the saueba ants.

Water began to pool as the thin layer of permeable soil above the level of the subterranean permafrost became saturated.

How would they react, she wondered, if they knew that their father might suddenly be much closer than ever before to becoming Pontifex, and that they could all find themselves uprooted from their good life at the Castle and forced to move along to the grim subterranean Labyrinth, the Pontifical seat far to the south, before long?

The long planks were tossed about like matches in the smoke of the bursting Shimose shells, and the slaughter when one of them landed right in the midst of the closely packed men in one of these subterranean mole-holes was absolutely indescribable.

He learned that the geologists had predicted a subterranean pocket of tritium oxide ice at sixteen thousand feet, and that it was for this that they were drilling.

This region of the globe is so underlaid with volcanic fires and the volcanoes of recent origin are such insufficient safety valves for the subterranean vapors, that shocks are of frequent occurrence, and are called by the people TREMBLORES.

Everyone had heard tales of people roaming the subterranean world who had taken injudicious turns and found themselves irretrievably lost in mazes built in ancient days to delude possible invaders, bewilderingly intricate webworks of anarchic design whose outlets were essentially unfindable and from which the only escape was through starvation.

Since their departure, the settlers had descended the slopes which constituted the mountain system of the island, on to a dry soil, but the luxuriant vegetation of which indicated it to be watered either by some subterranean marsh or by some stream.

But where Asherah had been enthralled just with the idea of the subterranean cities, let alone the possibility that a great road might connect them all and lead to one queen city, her maid feared being trapped alone in the dark while random breezes seemed to whisper her name like evil spirits approaching from behind.

The place resembles a sort of subterranean, Borgesian, infinite parking garage.

Each adult Martian female brings forth about thirteen eggs each year, and those which meet the size, weight, and specific gravity tests are hidden in the recesses of some subterranean vault where the temperature is too low for incubation.